Comments on: Italian Opera on a rainy English day with Juan Diego Florez might be just what the doctor ordered https://wolfiewolfgang.com/italian-opera-on-rainy-english-day-wi/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: WolfieWolfgang https://wolfiewolfgang.com/italian-opera-on-rainy-english-day-wi/#comment-337 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:44:42 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=1515#comment-337 Hi Claudio, I love Domingo of course – in certain roles – and actually worked with him once and found him as everyone says, highly professional and all that. I guess I am a voice man – a canary fancier they used to say – and I just found Pavarotti (in his early days) and Florez just vocally electrifying and I love that. I know what you are saying though even if "nothing" behind it is a bit too far.

Domingo for me is a superlative musician, a really good actor, in opera singer terms, and, in his prime, flawless in his baritonal tenor. He too in a number of his recorded performances can go through the motions though – I have just been listening to the two of them in rival recordings of Un Ballo in Maschera and for once Pavarotti wins on the interpretation/subtlety score.

]]> By: Claudio https://wolfiewolfgang.com/italian-opera-on-rainy-english-day-wi/#comment-336 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:28:08 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=1515#comment-336 He's on R3 at the moment with the wondrous Joyce diDonato (the one who injured her ankle and carried on regardless).

He's very good, but (a bit like Pavarotti) I don't feel there is anything behind it; I think Domingo with that rich quality is more to my liking.

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